gold showtimes on History Channel for countries
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U.S August 21-24 9PM
UK August 21-24 9PM
Israel August 19-22 3:30 PM
China August 21-24 10 PM
Middle East August 20-23 10PM
Spain / Portugal August 21-24 7PM
Australia August 21-24 7:30PM
Scandinavia TBA TBA
Latin America August 21-24
10PM in Argentina and Venezuela
9PM in Mexico and Colombia
Japan August 21-24 11PM
Germany August 23 & 30, September 6 & 13 2:15PM on ZDF
In medieval Europe, alchemists mixed powdered gold
into drinks to "comfort sore limbs," one of the earliest
references to arthritis.
Gold's extraordinary reflective power is used in defense
to deflect and confuse the signals of heat-seeking missiles.
The President's plane, Air Force One, is among the aircraft
protected by gold's anti-missile reflectors.
Vein, or lode mining, is the most important of all gold recovery methods. Although each ounce of gold recovered requires the processing of about 100,000 ounces of ore, there is so much gold deposited in rock veins that this method accounts for more than half of the world's total gold production today. The gold in the veins may be of microscopic particle size, in nuggets or sheets, or in gold compounds.
Although the quantity of gold present in seawater is more
than 9 billion metric tons, the cost of recovering it would be
far greater than its value.
The rarest form of gold is a nugget. The largest known nugget, the Welcome Stranger, weighed about 130.1 pounds and was turned up accidentally, just below the surface of the ground, by a wagon wheel in Victoria, Australia, in 1869. |
